The hotel is beautiful, which is why we chose it. Unlike the vast majority of hotels and motels, everywhere your eyes rest, there is something lovely -- flowers, rugs, furniture, wall coverings, etc., etc. etc. So why our mediocre rating?
First, the hotel has a popular restaurant that offers valet parking. As a result, the parking lot is blocked off. There is another entrance that avoids the valet, but it is up an impossibly rutted back alley, which is not clearly marked and very narrow and difficult to drive through.
Second, the hot and cold water is difficult to use. The cold water tap runs hot for the first fifteen minutes of use, and the hot water tap runs cold for a few seconds and then becomes hot. The temperature of the shower is almost impossible to adjust, so I settled for cold showers.
Third, when we checked in we were given a room that was being renovated, so we were then given a room that had an adjoining room. The door between the two rooms did not quite reach the floor, which left a space at the bottom through which we could hear just about every sound. The people in the adjoining room were fortunately not particularly loud, but when they listened to music even at normal volume it kept us up until fairly late at night.
In sum, like the girl with a curl on her forehead, the good things about the hotel were very, very good, but the bad things were horrid. Whick is why we gave it the OK rating that we did.